My Reading List 2009

"What shall I do with all my books?" The answer was, "Read them, but if you cannot read them, at any rate handle them and, as it were, fondle them. Peer into them. Let them fall open where they will. Read on from the first sentence that arrests the eye. Then turn to another. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas. Set them back on their shelves with your own hands. Arrange them on your own plan, so that if you do not know what is in them, you at least know where they are. If they cannot be your friends, let them at any rate be your acquaintances. If they cannot enter the circle of your life, do not deny them at least a nod of recognition."

- Winston Churchill

"People have to read" … Bob Gould, in his Newtown bookshop, says sales of second-hand books are very resilient.

My Reading List 2009:

1. The historian - Elizabeth Kostova

2. Miss prym & the devil - Paulo Coelho

3. Down under - Bill Bryson

4. Dont you know who I am - Piers Morgan

5. In the hot zone - Kevin Sites (+watched included DVD)

6. The tyrants, 2500 yrs of absolute power & corruption - Clive Foss







7. Freakonomics - Levitt & Dubner

8. Worst case scenario almanac history - Piven & Wagner

9. What I didnt learn from my real estate agent - Jamie Mcintyre


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10. History of religion - Karen Armstrong


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11. Holy blood & holy grail - Baigent & Leigh & Lincoln








12. Been there, done that, now what - Ed Young

13. Zones of conflict - Keegan & Wheatcroft


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14. The complete art of witchcraft - Sybil Leek







15. The end of poverty - Jeffrey Sachs







16. The end of charity - Nic Frances

17. Fences & windows - Naomi Klein







18. The age of spiritual machines - Ray Kurzweil








19. World on fire - Amy Chua







20. Once was bombay - Pinki Virani







21. Franchise - Issac Assimov








22. Biohazard - Ken Alibek

23. Absurdistan - Eric Campbell *








24. Final payments - Mary Gordon






25. Getting even - Woody Allen







26. Iris murdoch : a life - Peter Conradi






27. Best ghost stories - Algernon Blackwood *






28. Kids say the darndest things - Bill Cosby






29. Childhood - Bill Cosby

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30. The tipping point - Malcolm Gladwell







31. Among the cannibals - Paul Raffaele






32. The overlook - Michael Connelly *







33. No time for goodbye - Linwood Barclay





34. The last testament - Sam Bourne *







35. Garden spells - Sarah Addison Allen *






36. Under a green sky - Peter Ward





37. Angels - editors of beliefnet





38. Sciences strangest inventions - Tom Quinn





39. The devil in angela - Alec Snobel

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40. Tribulation force - Tim Lahaye & Jerry Jenkins





41. Promiscuities - Naomi Wolf *







42. The trouble with islam - Irshad Manji






43. A severed head - Iris Murdoch







44. Cities - Herbert Girardet






45. Jasmine - Bharati Mukherjee






46. Being indian - Pavan Varma






47. Tracey takes on tracey ullman






48. My point...and I do have one - Ellen Degeneres





49. 12 monkeys - Elizabeth Hand *







50. I am legend - Richard Matheson





51. Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka





52. The genius factory - David Plotz





53. Book - Whoopi Goldberg






54. Ruby: an ordinary woman - Bonnie Thompson Glaser







55. The nudist on the late shift & other tales of the silicon valley - Po Bronson *






56. Wifey - Judy Blume

57. The woman in the lobby - Lee Tulloch

58. True tales of the unknown - Sharon Jarvis







59. Ninety east ridge - Stephen Reilly

60. Climate wars - Gwynne Dyer







61. Chaos - James Gleick








62. Only revolutions - Mark Danielewski





A shoot-from-the-hip American road novel about Sam and Hailey - two wayward and wild kids who magically career across the American mainland and from the
Civil Rights Movement to the Iraq War and beyond.

Further expanding his aesthetical wordplay and unique use of graphics, Danielewski spins a timeless tale of ageless love between two teen-age lovers.


63. Cannibals, cows and the CJD catastrophe - Jennifer Cooke *



     

64. Tommyland - Tommy Lee & Anthony Bozza *










65. A short history of nearly everything - Bill Bryson *










66. Possessed - Thomas Allen










67. The Penguin book of the city - Robert Drewe

68. Coma - Alex Garland *



 






69.  Lucky man - Michael J. Fox *




 





70. Madonna (Like an icon) - Lucy O'Brien *

71. A quiver full of arrows - Jeffrey Archer

                                                                                    72. Chronicles of the holy fathers - R. W. Rowlands

This post will be regularly updated; once I read each book, I'll post
book title and
author on here with
the books pic

(Ive a goal to finish reading an unrealistic number of books in 2009 but its better aiming higher than lower :-)